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Caffeine (2006)
British humor?
Mostly cringeworthy.
The majority of the actors were clearly not British with bad accents, but that's not what made the movie bad. That would just be the reliance on vulgar language and crude situations to make for a storyline.
I wanted to smack the actors most of the time and tell them to grow up and get back to work. For instance, the waitress who ignored her senile grandmother - who was especially irritating in her role.
Not sure why Katherine Heigel chose to be in such a juvenile and formulaic movie, but it must've been early in her career.
There was never an opportunity missed to make the audience roll their eyes or cringe, as with the random depressing guitar song or the crazy old woman's violent antics or the obvious conclusion of who's 'rubber' it must have been. Almost comical how it tried to tie up all the loose ends with a happy ending despite how unbelievable it would be.
Truth (2015)
Journalists no longer care about truth anyway.
A fairly well acted story (given all the star power) which unfortunately wasted an entire movie on personal details of the military service of G. W. Bush that would have had little to no effect on a Presidential election of 20 years ago. The audience is meant to feel sorry for the main character Mary, who along with Dan Rather from 60 minutes, get 'rail roaded' into being fired and forced to retire, respectively, for attempting to uncover dirt on Bush, pre-election.
The problem is, they never did conclusively prove their case, and even if they had, as one character in the movie said, it was a non-story anyway.
Basically, self important liberal Hollywood actors portrayed self important liberal journalists more upset that they helped allow Bush to be re-elected than whether or not they were reporting facts.
It's ok, today's journalists don't care about truth either - or else the country would have known about Hunter Biden's laptop, his and his father's deals with China and Ukraine and how Trump being connected to Russia was a hoax all BEFORE the last election too. But, we all know why THAT didn't happen. I'm looking forward to all the movies about Those things.....
but I won't hold my breath. Lol.
Entrapment (1999)
Sean Connery wishes...
A clever enough film (with good cinematography) to keep one entertained, if you can get past the icky feeling of an old man interested in someone young enough to be his daughter (or granddaughter?) Catherine Zeta Jones is beautiful, whereas Sean Connery's reputation for womanizing is a turn off.
It (2017)
Stephen King is mentally ill
It is so clear that Stephen King is mentally disturbed. All you have to do is read any of his books or watch his movies to know this. Actually, you can just about tell by looking at him. His story lines are twisted, warped and basically just evil. It is a shame he has become so rich from the garbage he spews.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Two hours of garbage.
SPOILER: Thought this film might be worth watching, because Keaton was in it and I liked him in a couple of his old movies. I was wrong. What a waste of time. And, no the satirical nature of the film was not lost on me. It just sucked. It was way too dark and heavy (much like him as Batman.) Keaton just came off as a psychotic, schizophrenic, suicidal actor. It was painful to watch, since it was obvious before the end he planned on killing or hurting himself. All it did was make New York theater seem filled with cold, empty, power hungry and confused people. It sucked ~ don't waste your time!!